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So he's quite careful where this package starts starts to pull it apart, and the first letter

that they come across, literally starts with the words, if you're reading this, then I'm dead.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the co-host of the podcast, Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world.

On Wicked Words, I sit down with the people I've met along the way.

Amazing writers, journalists,

filmmakers, and podcasters who have investigated and reported on notorious true crime cases.

This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad, and it's a deep dive into the unpublished

details behind their stories.

This week on Wicked Words on Exactly Right, in 1999, a woman named Betty Katani went missing

in Johannesburg, South Africa. She just vanished from the restaurant where she was working,

then a letter found 13 years later changed everything. Author Alex Elysev tells me about his book,

Cold Case Confession, a real Agatha Christie story. So when we talk about the things that are

important about this story without ruining it for all the listeners

because it's a really interesting story. What do you say? What are the big things that you want

people to kind of learn a little bit when they read this book? I think that there are many,

many themes in this book, but I think the one that attaches your attention to the first is just

how amazing all the stars lined up to

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